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Linux is too hard (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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The indoctrination of windows is extreme. Windows is just as hard as linux, harder even with all the layers of obscurity.

And yet... linux is hard, and users decry RTFM as "not growing the userbase"

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

I mean I did complain on lemmy about how annoying it was a few times, its a shame too because this problem turned out to be super simple and potentially super common, it would just take a couple of lines being changed on the official setup guide to resolve it... actually come to think of it since its just renaming a file all it would take is having 2 copies of that file in the image with both names since only one is ever going to be used at a time anyway.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    For sure, you never lose your right to complain. But be fair to yourself too, even if you complained incessantly, you stuck it out (and what is a Linux user without incessant complaining?).

    The point is what you said though, they could very easily solve an issue that could be preventing a large group of potential users from adopting... because the maintenance team doesn't want to update the installation guide or the file names. Again, it's a very Linux thing for them to take that position. And that's why I end up recommending an Ubuntu spin to people, even though I think the whole package that Mint presents is nicer out of the box.

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